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Topic: utility to strip the ID3 tags off oggs for using elsewhere? (Read 5033 times)

I remember looking at UpdateMedia. The system checks for supported formats (.ogg, .flac, .mp3) and is supposed to either tag the files (mp3) or create .id3 files (ogg, flac). You may be able to zero in by grepping .ogg, .flac, and .mp3 in the Updatemedia directory.

Well I looked around a bit, searched all the .cpp and .h files for .ogg, .flac and .mp3 but there seems to be no reference to them anywhere in the source (not outside the UpdateMedia directory either).

I did find UpdateMedia/id3info/id3info.cpp, which has calls to functions like: ID3_AddYear(&myTag, sValue.c_str(), true); but I can't even find where those functions are actually implemented.

I'll look around some more, but I'm just not familiar enough with the code to figure out where it's being done, let alone able to do something about it, at least for the time being (and I'm not in much of a rush either).

Suggests that UpdateMedia is writting the id3 tags in mp3, ogg, aac files (the code is svn: src/UpdateMedia/PlutoMediaFile.cpp) using libid3 - hardcoded to these three extensions.

Some desired to embed meta data in the files themselves, instead using the .id3 files in the directories and the database for flexibility. And so modified LinuxMCE (rip script) to embed Artist/Album/Track/Genre/Date information into the music files when ripping a CD to see the information on the Squeezebox when playing back ripped files from the core.

Perhaps a better solution for this goal would be to enable lmce to present the metadata to the squeezebox from either the .id3 files or the native tags of the format.

Is there a way to create .id3 tags for video (and audio that does not use id3) outside of lmce?

Finally, I'm curious if anyone has had luck orgainizing video files with tools like idealsorter - http://www.idealsorter.com/ or similar?

Bottom line is I have a large collection of av (some carefully tagged, some not yet) but I'd like to have lmce display the meta on the ones I have organized. lmce does not seem to pick up the meta directly, so I'm thinking that adding .id3 files may help.